Princess Michael of Kent asks other Kensington Palace residents including the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to help find her missing Burmese cat.

Princess Michael of Kent left the Olympics team dressage at Greenwich early on Tuesday to search for her beloved cat, which has gone missing.

Ruby, an 11-month-old Burmese, has not been seen since Monday morning. “The Princess is very, very worried,” says one of her friends.

Prince Michael’s wife has been knocking on doors at Kensington Palace, whose other residents include the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to see if the cat could have become accidentally shut in somewhere.

The Princess whose name is Marie-Christine, has had Ruby since before Christmas and the cat has never previously strayed outside the palace’s grounds. It is wearing a yellow collar, with a telephone number on it.

Bedroom scenes can be uncomfortable at the best of times, but for Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale in the forthcoming remake of Total Recall, there was an added frisson as they were being directed by the actress’s husband, Len Wiseman.

“My husband has, obviously, got a fetish for that as I’ve done that before,” says Beckinsale. “It’s the other person who, I think, feels awkward about it. I’ve got no moveable parts, so I can be inscrutable.”

Honeymoon row

Andy Triggs Hodge, who won gold in the rowing four at the weekend, has another reason to celebrate.

The Oxford graduate can finally go on his honeymoon, almost two years after he married Eeke Thomee, 29, who is a trainee surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

“We’ll go on a proper holiday and look to get our honeymoon, which we didn’t have,” says Triggs Hodge, 33, who attended a Bollywood party at Omega House in Soho. “We had a lovely three and a half days in Devon after our wedding, but that was all that we could manage.”

Suit yourself

Daniella Helayel, whose Issa range is a favourite of the Duchess of Cambridge, has no designs on the Duke.

“Menswear is boring,” she tells Mandrake. “All the suits just look the same. We do board shorts [swimming trunks], but that is all.”